EDITOR: Animal abuse needs to end! Many people consider their pets as family and family members shouldn’t be used as punching bags. In a lot of reported cases of child abuse, the person doing the abuse goes to jail. So people with a criminal record of animal abuse should also be sentenced to prison. This way we can be a step closer to ending animal abuse.

In the past few years, news reports have described incidents of people cutting off pit bulls’ ears so they can fight in the ring with other pit bulls. Those dogs deserve to live a life of happiness and free of cruelty, because they also have feelings.

Much of the time when animals attack it’s because those animals were abused.

Animal abuse needs to end. Animals have a right to be on the Earth like everybody else. Stop abusing animals and stop standing by while other do. No more leaving dogs on chains all day and all night; no more cutting off ears and tails. Just end it all. Together we can all end animal cruelty.